Bushisms

Check out the new DVD Bushisms - the video version of the book that documents the now-famous blunders of the President. The trailer for the DVD is here.

CLAIM vs. FACT: Bush on Non-Proliferation

CLAIM:
“[Non]-Proliferation is one of the centerpieces of [my] multi-pronged strategy to make the country safer.”
- President Bush, 9/30/04

FACT:
“In his fiscal year 2005 budget request to Congress, released just a week earlier, Bush did not substantially increase funding for these programs and actually proposed cuts to the Department of Defense component as well as suggested spending shifts in programs in the Departments of Energy and State.”
- Arms Control Association, 3/04

FACT:
The Bush administration tried to cut funding for chemical demilitarization in the 2005 federal budget. These programs help reduce chemical weapons stockpiles.
- Army Magazine, 3/04

“[Bush] officials were attempting to persuade 65 skeptical governments at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva that much delayed negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty, or “fiss-ban” (ending the production of fissile material for military purposes), should proceed without considering any verification rules.”
- The Economist, 9/2/04

You Call This a Democracy?

My latest piece on how the GOP is making a mockery of our democratic system.

See the article here.

GOP Outsources Its Operations

From PC World...apparently the GOP is outsourcing its voter outreach efforts to India:

"When the Republican Party clinched close gubernatorial races in Mississippi and Kentucky in 2003, it relied heavily on its Voter Vault database to get people to the voting booths. Though party officials are tight-lipped about what's inside the Vault, they've acknowledged it contains records on an estimated 168 million voters. PC World has recently learned that the major development work on the Voter Vault was done in India."

Read the full story here.